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‘We’re not going back!’: Voters protest SCOTUS voting rights ruling at Alabama capitol 72%
5/16/2026, 8:35:34 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Indoctrination, with In-Group Bias as the most egregious example at 46.5% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 217 faulty-reasoning hits from 71 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 64.8% and a BS Rank of 72% (4,816 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 71.40% of the article peer group.
Protesters, faith leaders, and voting rights activists are gathering across the South to demonstrate against Republican gerrymandering efforts that could disenfranchise minority voters, 60 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
MS NOW Reporter Laura Haefeli is on the ground in Montgomery, Alabama at one of those protests and spoke to voters to hear their thoughts.
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Optimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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Circular Reasoning
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Red Herring
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Appeal to Emotion
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Appeal to Nature
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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